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Efficient utilization of elliptic curve cryptography in design of a three-factor authentication protocol for satellite communications

2019; Elsevier BV; Volume: 147; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.comcom.2019.08.018

1873-703X

Arezou Ostad‐Sharif, Dariush Abbasinezhad‐Mood, Morteza Nikooghadam,

Cryptography and Data Security

Satellite communications are one of the significant methods of communications, which can be used in long distances and in conditions that the other means of communications cannot be operated. With the aid of the satellite communications, many services, such as video or voice calling, television, fax, Internet, and radio channels are prepared. So far, a number of authenticated key agreement protocols have been presented for satellite communications. However, they cannot totally provide the desired security requirements. For instance, in this paper, we show that a newly-published scheme does not resist the ephemeral secret leakage attack and does not provide perfect forward secrecy. Therefore, in order to address these security challenges, we suggest a three-factor elliptic curve cryptography based protocol that can withstand the well-known attacks with a comparable performance. To confirm the security of the proposed protocol, it has been formally analyzed using both automated validation of Internet security protocols and applications (AVISPA) tool and random oracle model. Furthermore, through a descriptive security analysis, we demonstrate that the presented scheme is safe and robust against various attacks. Eventually, to indicate the performance of the proposed protocol, a comparative efficiency analysis has been done besides an experimental evaluation on a suitable hardware. The results are indicative of the security and efficiency of the proposed protocol.